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DOCTORS CHECK ON A DOUBLE WHISKY

By Chapman Pincher

T

HE power of a double Scotch to allay anxiety has astonished doctors who have, precisely measured its morale-boosting effect for the Arst time.”.

A small shot of alcohol suli- stan Jolly steps up the body's capacity to cope with mental

stress

Ben

within or pain minutes of being swallowerd, the doctors report in a briliant monograph just published,

The "f lasts ut least two hours, reaching its peak about one hour after the drink hus been taken,

Experiments were carried out on volunteers by Dr James Man Dr Harold Wolff, andi Helen Goodell at America's

Cornell University.

abic

lo

The doctors were cause anxiety by threatening to burn the volunteers with a heat-beam. The first physical sign of it was a mudden increase In sweating by the skin. was detected by means of elec- Irical contact pads attached to the bare armS,

This

When cold sober some of the volunteers become anxious long before the hent was really pain- ful. After they had drunk the equivalent of the one double Scotch there were no signs of anxiety until long after a blister itat formed

With the benefit of only one staff drink the volunteers were nuch less concerned about the Fear of pain, and they more resistant to it when happened.

were

The findings support the belief that some people are born

a couple of drinks short of the

best mental condition for coping

with modern civilisation.

The U.S. doctors ingenious

THE CHINA, MAIL, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1953,

FILES

"Thoro's sovoral reasons why you can't finish your game tonight-one because you're not Drobny and he's not Patty, and another bocause you're clearing out and I'm locking up:

London Express Berrios

Fragile but determined Miss Gene Tierney, high up on the Hollywood escalator at £28,000 a year, has been making films in Britain.・ Europe has seen a lot of her. So, too, has Aly Khan.

THE TIERNEY

FTER

finishing 3 couple of days' retake work at Pinewood on

experiments also confirmed that] "Personal Affair," her latest

or

by FRANCIS MARTIN

Summer heat Saps energy

ENRICHED BREAD puts it back!

Lane Crawford's

LANE. CRAWFORD LTD.)

The first

LEGEND AUTOMATIC

It is Impossible to be every inch a lady and a tough trouper at the same time. There was a painful incident at a Hollywood parly five years ago. Gene radi- antly told a

ther

£150 a Week

any form of distraction, such as film with an English set- interesting work

Christmastide special licence, murried Count to with a bump. It is no bid that she was going to become t loud. a

ting, Gene Tierney flew to ing him at

A naturalised thing to, take the bump demc-

A second woman col- Oleg Cassini, noise,

cotton-wool automatically increases

snow- American, who cherishes an in- cratically. At Finewood Miss umniat, angered at being robbed the body's power to withstand Paris for relaxation. She with

shed her dropped relaxing balls while the champagne herlied Russian title and designs Tierney, sometimes

of exclusive rights in the news pain.

has now

turned furiously upon That is why the slight pain in favour of house-hunting, flows.

dresses with a sense of inission, ladylike: reserve and

don tea, eyed at Item,

with Gene, who crumpled in helpless which you hardly notice during

Although- of delicate

Early this year she divorced

electricians, props men. tears under a ruthless' verbp! the day when you are busy

What she has in mind, mould, with something of him. Not that all is quite over She drank tea from a cup with caning becomes almost unbearable

apparently, is something the Tragile conservatory between them. Oleg still makes out saucer prid borrowed two- when you lie in bed at night,

smallish and flower-girt, a bloom about her, Miss her the odd gown, taking his penca to buy cream doughnuts. THE EGG AND DAD

She still shudders at

at the place smacking of the coun- Tierney has always had a turn with Balenciaga Balmain,mpient was favourable Most

memory. "It was a terribla HOW DOES a male bird try yet within handy drive pretty exact idea where Griffe and the rest, Miss Women Stars have snack tray.

evening" she says. A trouper Icarn that he has become ing distance of Paris. Her she was going. At 18 she Tierney's wardrobe is as-charm sent to the lush privacy of their

would have caned, back, giving father and must start collecting plan is to spend the rest wanted to go on the stage. Ing as her. income. As carly 88.On location she was considered as good as she got. But fears,

Does his wife tive of the summer baby food?

in France Her father, Howard, Sher- 1946 she was carning £28,000 opartan almost. The Jocation especially heartfelt ones, are him a shout or wave a wing as

with her daughter Chris wood Tierney, a prospering year. She has risen to near the team came back wide-eyed, suy more winsome in the long run. the first

A sulle at the Ritz is a toler hatches? egg Birdwatcher Alexander tina, who is nearing five. New York insurance broker, top as smoothly as a moving ing how she had eaten harri-

at first said: No.

stair.

boiled eggs and bread and but-ably good place for recovering

Skulch, who has spent several months Anding

out, reports France, aighs

Miss

that there is rarely any billing Tierney. is the one coun-` roving, or mutual jubilation.

If the father is not sufficient-try where she would like

ly interested to keep close watch to live for ever.

on what is happening

She

To Hollywood

hus She wont on

the stage

In the spent a good deal of time just the same; played bit nest his wife hugs her secret there as it is. flying in parts

To herself.

She wt yell out

to

impressively and for food Paris-bound aeroplanes with signed her first Hollywood- without telling him the news Aly Khan, dancing with contract within a year. At 20 she wanted She will not even trouble to him at Riviera parties until stand up to give him a view five in the morning, sitting marry. Again her parents

alongside him at Monte said: No.

"Walt another six months," Carlo as he gambles with they advised. Instead of walling Pain Sensations and Reactions 100,000-franc chips, pelt- she eloped to Las Vegas and, on

of his new family.

(Daltilere, Tindali and Cox, 104.).

EXHILARATING

Word for the new drive against the bandits, says

I

Kuala Lumpur. Sefton Delmer reverse the direction of his anti-

Do not care whether it

What is so exhturating is the

bandit drive which in the past year has been forcing the bandits

Jungle.

Now as in the operation I have

Is 100 percent suc- Job with beller in what they deeper and deeper into the cessful or not this big new were doing. sweep Sir Gerald Templer's forces have just bunched against the Communist ban- dit stronghold in Central Malaya.

net with the rest of what been watching. Templer, instead

What they are trying to do

is to round up a biggish group

I have seen on this trip through of driving the bandits "outside South-East Asia. The contrast, in, is driving them for instance, with the dreary out."

defeatist opportunism 1 found at Malcolm MacDonald's Court in Singapore,

MacDonald (and behind him

of bandits in the 25-square-mile our own Foreign and Colonial

What a contrast!

In other words, through the.

"inside

Hoverplanes help

In the present operation the

dressing rooms. A

hoverplanes went in four abreast Gene Tierney relaxes at the edge of här swimming pool. Swimming is a favourite sport,

for

net they have thrown around Offices) employs there as a top with British paratroops. The part of the Pahang jungle. propaganda expert for South- planes could not land. But the

East Asia area a man who gives paratroops threw out ropes and No girl over succeeded in this 1er, with a bottis of stout, in a from the fatigues and trictions village pub. When Miss Tierney of film life. When she stays But, frankly, I do not mind if it out as his firm conviction

shinned down them like monkeys way and at this pace by being takes the odd glass of Engilah there with Christina and Chris, most of the 80 or so bandits that Britain's most hopeful ap into the undergrowth.

just a sweet, sedate young thing., beer she talks, as likely as not, tina's French nanny, as well as belleved to be caught in it proach to the Asiatic world today in the thick is through the British Left-wing -manage to hide

was up to our Yet that is precisely how Miss of her taste Chippendale her own mald and hired English "The, grass undergrowth and soggy

swamp Socialists.

necks," said Lance-corporal Cyril Tierney is regarded by the dry. chairs or Adam chimney-pieces. chauffeur. Miss Tierney's ex- penses of one sort or another and clude the 2,000-odd searchers.

Higgins, of Blackpool. when I eyed specialists who work along. Her refinement is formidable.

Wearing tweeds, silk scarf and must swing between £100 and That is only partly because I

joined him and others in the aide her among the cameras and habitual nir

nir of swarthy salf £150 a week: know that an operation of this

clearing, an hour later.

mikeboorns. At 32 she moves, confidence, Aly Khan twice kind, like insect spray, has its

And when playtime comes biggest effect some time after it men who have dedicated them- But in less than 30 minutes talks and twinkles much as she drove over to Pinewood. While is ostensibly over.

selves to the liquidation of the the British had out, down trees did on graduating from Mis film eminences whispered in his there is always the Riviera. Or. horse was po.haps a torch-lit ball at Ver- with axes and cross-sawa and Porter's Anishing school at car asking. which The bandits, their organisation Commonwealth and Colonies.

mown down - the jungle gras Farmington, Connecticut, every going to win this race or that, sallies with the Windsors na fel- disrupted, their jungle food sup What a contrast 1. found in with their parangs, ·

he kept an appraising eye on low guests. Or, for a complete inch'a ludy, as the saying is, plies broken up and burned down, the jungle from the

change, Aly Khan's place in raciol in-

Miss Tierney. Then they had laid out six wall for the troops to withdraw. forlorly complexes

"She acts beautifully," con County Kildare, where they ride which are landing patches. By the time I Is there a touch of aloofness? eeded Aly.

and watch horses In Training Then they come out to fight it ruining Indonesia today,

and walk together by the lake, out in the open with the police; watched Africans of the King's installerade, post had been At Pinewood during the shooting and of "Personal Affair" she spent some to surrender.

African Rides, tough little Gurkhas were flying in, “t

These Idyllic goings-on are her walling. Ume with Gurkhas from India, and cheer- The Africans looped out one her head in some book, usually

much

Beautiful acting means hard the theme of chatter, from Their belief ful Malay police working most aster the other, and monched mide

English netion. In work. middle-brow

During four weeks of Cannes to California and back. happily alongside paratroopers off Into tho jungle. The small-talk her face rarely lights shooting she left the Ritz in her When will: Gene and Alyan But the main reason why I from Birmingham and Black Gurkhas, to add a special touch, up until you mention one of her Jaguar every workaday morning nounce their betrothal? How am so delighted with this opera- pool, and men of the Manchester brought in police dage with pet cultsy French landscape at 6.30, lying full length in the soon are they to marry? Y tion is because of what I have Regiment.

them

to help in the search. or French cooking, or, above all, back seat so as to have her sleep

Aly's reply, in effect: "We are myself seen during the beginning

And scarcely three hours after the French language. She was out during the 60-minute sun to Among the British in the

and In the 24 hours which I spent jungle is a group of naval flors the whole operation had begun at school in Lausanne for a while Pinewood. Before going on to good friends just that

French with Stage D at 8.30 she regularly nothing more." But speculation, with the Commonwealth jungle whom Templer has managed to the first bandit had been found and has spoken

avidity over since...

spent

an hour with the studio, chatter rumour continue. The fighters as they were launching wangle out of the Admiralty and killed.

hairdressers who, for continuity, world hates to be robbed of a this drag. I bow men from all completa

their heavy. What a chance these hover-

After the gift and galety of had to make her hair look romance. planes and Templer'a DOW parts of the British Common- hoverplanes wealth and Colonies going in These hoverplanes have made methods would give the French Riviera Interludes, the studio, actly the same as the day (World Copyright Reserved-London

for Templer to in Indo-Chi

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